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Travel Blogger Meet-up Part 10 After his Muay Thai lesson at True Fitness in Downtown Bangkok, Michael Taylor returns to the Hansar Bangkok, where a one hour massage treatment awaits him at the Luxsa Spa. Whenever I have a spa treatment at a five star hotel, I am given a questionaire to fill out asking …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part Eight After spending the weekend at a friend's home on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Michael Taylor moves back into town, where he spends two nights at Hansar Bangkok, a sophisticated boutique hotel in the Lumpini district. Hansar Bangkok is a stylish boutique hotel just half a block from the Ratchadamri …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part 15 Could someone at McDonald's Thailand please explain this to me? Because I am GENUINELY curious!!! I TOTALLY do not GET it!!! I REALLY don't understand what I was doing wrong!!! After checking into my extremely stylish hotel in what is probably the toniest section of Bangkok, I go out in …
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Air China Boeing 777: demand from China and the Asia Pacific will double the number of airliners over the next 20 years, US plane maker Boeing predicts. Photo Credit: Jeff Gilber. Business News High demand for new airplanes from the Asia Pacific will fuel demand for more than 35,000 new airplanes valued at US$4.8 trillion …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part Seven While staying at the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand, Michael Taylor has a wide-ranging interview with the hotel's affable General Manager, Eric Hallin. They move outdoors for a yummy lunch by the pool. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Eric Hallin has spent most of his life living abroad. He accompanied …
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Sports The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks will travel to Sydney, Australia, for the Opening Series of Major League Baseball in 2014 - the first time the high profile sporting event has ever been held in Australia. This will be only the sixth time the home opener has ever been held in the …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part Five Michael Taylor flies to Bangkok to take part in the first ever Bloggers Matchup.. While staying at the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok, the results of the Club Sandwich Index are released. Cities in Europe dominate the Hotels.com Club Sandwich Index (CSI), which measures the average price charged by hotels for a …
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Business News The mayor of Denver, Colorado, has led a delegation of nearly 70 business, tourism, and government officials to Japan aboard the first ever scheduled nonstop flight linking the Mile High City with the Land of the Rising Sun. United Airlines launched the new route linking Denver with Tokyo on 10 June 2013. It …
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Travel Blogger Match-up Part Four Michael Taylor flies to Bangkok to take part in the first ever Travel Bloggers Match-up organized by Digital Innovation Asia. While in the Big Mango, he spends five nights at the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok. Bangkok, Thailand, is chock-a-block with excellent hotels at all price points. They tend to have great …
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Corporate Social Responsibility One thousand under priviledged children in Thailand will start the school year with new backpacks stuffed full of school supplies thanks to the generosity and creative thinking of officials at Boeing and Thai Airways International. The school supplies were sourced by Boeing. They will be flown to Thailand aboard a newly acquired …
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